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🤔Um...what about the suicide numbers?
😔It's not good news. While homicides have fallen since pandemic highs, firearm suicides have increased.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data...
😔It's not good news. While homicides have fallen since pandemic highs, firearm suicides have increased.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data...
Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2025
U.S. gun violence reached record lows, but still more than 110 people were shot each day. Here are other statistics that illuminate this year’s trends.
www.thetrace.org
January 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
🤔Um...what about the suicide numbers?
😔It's not good news. While homicides have fallen since pandemic highs, firearm suicides have increased.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data...
😔It's not good news. While homicides have fallen since pandemic highs, firearm suicides have increased.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data...
The United Nations Minamata Convention set a target to phase out mercury from dental amalgams globally by 2035.
environment.ec.europa.eu/news/global-...
environment.ec.europa.eu/news/global-...
Global ban on mercury in dental treatment adopted
The decision represents an important milestone in protecting human health and the environment from the harmful impacts of mercury.
environment.ec.europa.eu
January 8, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The United Nations Minamata Convention set a target to phase out mercury from dental amalgams globally by 2035.
environment.ec.europa.eu/news/global-...
environment.ec.europa.eu/news/global-...
🤔How did that happen?
💉Better access to vaccines and preventative therapies.
🩺More health systems capable of early diagnosis and treatment.
🧐Expanding surveillance of emerging pathogens.
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
💉Better access to vaccines and preventative therapies.
🩺More health systems capable of early diagnosis and treatment.
🧐Expanding surveillance of emerging pathogens.
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
Global burden of lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
Lower respiratory infections (LRIs) remain the world’s leading infectious cause of death. This analysis from the GBD 2023 study provides global, regional, and national estimates of LRI incidence, mort...
www.healthdata.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:33 PM
🤔How did that happen?
💉Better access to vaccines and preventative therapies.
🩺More health systems capable of early diagnosis and treatment.
🧐Expanding surveillance of emerging pathogens.
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
💉Better access to vaccines and preventative therapies.
🩺More health systems capable of early diagnosis and treatment.
🧐Expanding surveillance of emerging pathogens.
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
🤔Is there more good news?
👏Yes!
"Living conditions in these countries have improved more broadly. Poverty rates are lower, and life satisfaction is higher. Incomes have not just doubled in terms of GDP per capita; median incomes have also doubled," reports @simonvanteutem.bsky.social.
👏Yes!
"Living conditions in these countries have improved more broadly. Poverty rates are lower, and life satisfaction is higher. Incomes have not just doubled in terms of GDP per capita; median incomes have also doubled," reports @simonvanteutem.bsky.social.
GDP per capita has doubled in all three Baltic states since 2000
Since 2000, GDP per capita has doubled in all three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (where it has nearly tripled).
ourworldindata.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
🤔Is there more good news?
👏Yes!
"Living conditions in these countries have improved more broadly. Poverty rates are lower, and life satisfaction is higher. Incomes have not just doubled in terms of GDP per capita; median incomes have also doubled," reports @simonvanteutem.bsky.social.
👏Yes!
"Living conditions in these countries have improved more broadly. Poverty rates are lower, and life satisfaction is higher. Incomes have not just doubled in terms of GDP per capita; median incomes have also doubled," reports @simonvanteutem.bsky.social.
Read all about it: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Read all about it: www.bbc.com/news/article...